Hi Wilko,
Ok. I found an (expensive) way to call in for a few minutes, so Manny,
Jacek, Chris and I had a very short discussion. This was fine as some of
us were in the xrootd mini-workshop at CERN most of the afternoon. We'll
pick up next week...
Pete
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:52:08AM -0800, Wilko Kroeger wrote:
> Hello Pete
>
> I will not be able to attend the meeting because I am traveling to San
> Diego today. Stephen is also gone but maybe Akram or Rainer could call
> you.
>
> There isn't much news from SLAC. We got the redirectors and a new alias,
> bbr-rdr-p, to be used by skimming, but we will wait until next Monday
> before we put them into production. At the same time I also would like
> to change to a newer xrootd version, hoping that it will fix the
> communication problems between redirector and data servers for the
> bbrprod cluster.
>
> I started to do some write performance measurement but I need some more
> data server to test it with the redirector. I will do this next week (I
> will be gone unitl Friday).
>
> Cheers,
> Wilko
>
>
>
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Peter Elmer wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > The next meeting on xrootd development, testing, deployment and monitoring
> > will be Tuesday, 15 February, 2005 at 10:15 CA, 19:15 Europe and 18:15 UK. The
> > location at SLAC is SCS conference room B and the location at CERN is my
> > office (32 2C-14).
> >
> > --> Wilko, or somebody at SLAC, could you call out to us at +41-22-767-4644?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > The connection info for this meeting is:
> >
> > phone: +1-510-665-5437
> > passcode: 4465
> >
> > Agenda:
> >
> > o problem list
> > o http://xrootd.slac.stanford.edu/problems.html
> > o workshop at CERN, 15 Feb., 2005 (today)
> > o Castor
> > o LDPM
> > o ACAT05
> > o New development/features
> > o reading data across high-latency networks (WAN ,MAN, ...)
> > o read ahead
> > o memory algorithm improvements
> > o >64 servers
> > o testing the latest version / making a new "production" version
> > o kXR_int16 to kXR_unt16 changes (Jacek/Fabrizio)
> > o Changes needed in TXNetFile? (Coordinated with deployment of
> > new XProtocol.hh? No backwards compatibility problems?)
> > o status of posix-compatible client
> > o out-of-domain redirection/connections
> > o file cache for xrdcp?
> > o synch/merge of XrdClient and TXNetFile
> > o status of xrootd-based buffer (being tested for skimming in BaBar)
> > o any problems?
> > o server side monitoring - Jacek
> > o proposal as to how to organize this
> > o client side monitoring support
> > o testing asynchronous I/O with CVS HEAD of TXNetFile...
> > o "admin" interface (shutdown, redirecting clients, ...)
> > o proxy support
> > o unsolicited responses
> > o updates needed by Castor people
> > o SRM
> > o libstdc++ rpm for RH72/gcc2.95.3
> > o multi-experiment setups
> > o compilation tests with other platforms/compilers (icc, gcc 3.4...)
> > o Sites
> > o Example configurations
> > o SLAC
> > o olb03/olb04/kanolb-a renaming (arrghh!)
> > o Cornell
> > o Padova - Fulvio
> > o CNAF - Enrica
> > o In2p3 - Jean-Yves
> > o RAL - Chris/Manny
> > o config rpm and files
> > o FZK - Gregory
> > o status of setting up the xrootd system
> > o GPFS servers?
> > o xrootd procedures
> > o restart of servers (deployment of new versions)
> > o problems with particular data servers
> > o adding a new server
> >
> > I have almost certainly forgotten some things, so please feel free to bring
> > anything important up during the meeting.
> >
> > Pete
> >
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